Read a CNN article that said last year, before the Musk takeover, Twitter had 238 million active users. That's just... so few isn't it? Like there's 330 million people in the US alone and Twitter was hugely international right? Once you spread that out across all the different countries that Twitter was apparently popular in... it turns out that a minority of people were using it. It sure felt like "everyone" was there and it was "the public square" that you "have" to be in but actually it really wasn't.
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in reply to @shel's post:
it was where the journalists were, which is different but still distinct
You should be automatically suspicious of anything the capitalist class and its professional fluffers in the media insist is The Real Voice Of The People because it's never, ever the fucking case.
Working in a field where I often have long conversations with people outside my social circle about our interests has really been useful in that it forces me to contend with the fact that, say, Steam boasting about having 120 million users means basically NOTHING. Like, that's SO few people on a global scale. I'll mention that I have a game up on Steam and 9 times out of 10 I have to explain that Steam is an online store for computer games. Very important for the internet-brained to receive frequent reminders of how universal our experiences aren't
Yeah my job very much has also had this effect on me I mean sheesh every day I meet people who have never heard of a printer or even the term social media.
it's very funny that the hype cycle and the press basically tricked everyone with investor money into thinking twitter was ginormous
What blew my mind, was discovering that Twitter wasn't even in the top 10 for monthly active users. It barely made the top 20.
Instagram has, when Twitter was at its peak, almost four times the userbase (2 billion vs Twitter's 450 million).
Twitter's 'popularity' was entirely driven by the fact that newsmedia/media kept referring to everything happening on it as important.